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CMC simulation for Power11 based on the existing real life data

My idea is to provide a simulated workload on the next Power generation, either in the HMC or in the CMC. IBM could show customers a picture of "what are my savings if I invest in the latest Power generation": * would I save cores? How much? * wou...
10 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Navigator for i - Trivializing SIEM Integration

Problem Statement Network and Security Operation Centers have a high desire to utilize SIEM technologies to centralize the logging of health, service status, system status, etc... of various appliances (both hard and software) in the enterprise. A...
6 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Enhance all SAVE and BRMS SAVE commands to be able to put an identical stream to other tapes

We recently found out that a DUPTAP needs twice as long as the SAVE which is sometimes a regulatory requirement. If the backup takes very long than this might result in 24 hours not being enough to complete the task (if the backup takes more than ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Submitted

Granular API Token Management in CMC

The current IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) API token system provides limited control over access permissions. We propose enhancing the token management capabilities to provide greater flexibility and security: Multiple API Tokens: Allow users ...
8 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

Retrieving Events/Alerts in CMC from API

Currently, the IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) provides notifications of events and alerts only via email and SMS. This limits the ability to integrate CMC with other monitoring, ticketing, and automation systems. We propose adding a RESTful AP...
8 months ago in Cloud Management Console 0 Submitted

6-digit date format for RPG

Hi IBM, On further checking, there is an IBM doc (date 2024-10-08) https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=ios-changes-1940-2039-date-range-date-formats-2-digit-year that explained that new environment variable QIBM_QBASEYEAR apply to CL command, ...
8 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Additions for the PRUV tool

Please add the following to the PRUV tool. Report on command default changes in IBM licensed program libraries. simple example (SELECT * FROM TABLE(QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL', '*CMD')) > WHERE APAR_ID = 'CHGDFT';) possible enhancements: in ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing 0 Submitted

Enhance QCAPCMD CL Syntax Checking to Report position of detected syntax error

The QCAPCMD API can be used to syntax Cl commands or run them. When syntax checking, the API logs error messages in the joblog, and also returns a "Command failed" type messages to the exception/error structure. As we move to non-SEU interfaces to...
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 0 Submitted

IBM Navigator for i EIM reporting - users with their associations

Can you please provide the ability to export a list of EIM users along with their associations. Currently it's only possible to export the users. Something I can use to locate users that no longer have a target because their IBM i account has been...
10 months ago in IBM i / Application Development 0 Submitted

AIX ansible support for generating encrypted passwords.

https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix/issues/548 Request to add support to ansible for AIX to add user password generation with encryption
about 1 year ago in AIX 0 Submitted

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